Self Idolatry Quotes

#1. Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

Karen Armstrong

#3. If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Fulton J. Sheen

#4. Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.

John Wesley

#5. A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize - without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose

Charles Williams

#6. Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

Rich Mullins

#7. While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Simone Weil

#9. Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#10. To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Richard J. Foster

#11. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is unrelenting in seeking to convert every area of our hearts and lives. The Gospel is all-encompassing. It is in fact the only source of godliness. Search anywhere else, and you have nothing more than self-reform at best and idolatry at its worst.

Barbara Hughes

#12. Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

Will Herberg

#13. The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!

T. B. Joshua

#14. Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.

Sherry Turkle

#16. A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1

Richard J. Foster

#17. A theology of unknowing is necessary for a theology of knowing because without it God would not be worshipped as infinite but rather as a creature, and that would be idolatry.10

Thomas Moore

#18. A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.

Matt McCook

#19. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Criss Jami

#20. Not even generals can stop the rain.

Jeff Shaara

#21. If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!

Adrian Rogers

#22. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

Matt Chandler